Those aren’t lasers, they’re millimeter-wave radio beams.

Yes, they can be deflected pretty easily, but you’ll need metal shield that’s big enough to entirely hide behind.

In the tech industry, when a system doesn’t work and can’t be fixed we throw it out and start over.

We’re there already, an Australian team got started on the project months ago: https://theconversation.com/a-new-supercomputer-aims-to-closely-mimic-the-human-brain-it-could-help-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-mind-and-advance-ai-220044

Feels like a bit of a loop back there. “It can only ever be as smart as human output. So we’ll always need humans.” To… What? Create equivalent mistakes?

Should have finished reading the comment:

a human will always be needed to determine if the results make (real world) sense.

Maybe LLMs in their current form won’t be the drop in replacement, but it’s a critical milestone and a sign of what’s around the corner.

You’re right, but not in the way you think.

It’s only a matter of time before these compankes start trying to simulate human brains. We need state recognition of legal personhood for digital humans /before/ corporations start torturing them for profit.

Indeed. Parties which actually pose a threat to the current establishment aren’t permitted to organize.

Playing “Spot the Fed” was a popular passtime at Occupy.

The PSL are state socialists, their entire reason for existing is to be a front for state-aligned interests.

We’re getting the orange anyway because the Democrats would rather preserve their AIPAC funding than win an election.

And besides; the Socialist Party is an FBI front organization, the PSL is content to ignore Russia’s war on Ukraine, and even though the Greens have decent politics they’re still being used by everyone as a wedge to split the Democrat vote in favor of Republicans. There’s no way to vote for socialism that isn’t self-defeating.

I’d be worried about debris flung into steeply elliptical orbits, though. It wouldn’t take much to do some real damage to sats in higher orbits and once the cascade starts there’s not much we can do but wait decades for the worst of it to fall into the atmosphere.

Sure would, but America is intent on dominating this hemisphere and sees South America as a collection of client states.

I’ll just sell my car at that point. If the privilege to drive is contingent on submitting to automotive surveillance then I’m going back to biking for groceries and calling a taxi for anything I can’t reach by bus.